Guild Wars 2

Khisanth.2948:

It is every 10 so
1-10
11-20
21-30
31-40
41-50

If you do a 10 and a less than 10 then you will only get one chest.

Whaaaaat….that kinda sucks, but would seem to explain my problem…thanks.

Ok so I’m a little unsure about fractals rewards, the bonus chests to be precise, specifically in the case of doing multiple runs but in different “tiers”. (1-9, 10-19, etc)
Is how it works that if I do say a Lv5 fractal, and then later a Lv13 (in the same day) I should get 2 daily chests? Note : Since I guess it does matter to an extent, my reward level is 23.

I’m just looking to clear this up because I’m almost certain that one day recently I did a Lv10 or higher and the later did a Level under 10 and on the sub-10 run got no daily.
Am I misunderstanding the reward system…? Or perhaps is there a weird bug occurring here?

Ok so I realise the “fastest” way to get me a good amount of linen would probably be to just buy on TP…but I don’t think I wanna fork over how much it’s going to cost. So I was wondering are there any other half-decent methods I could try? I’m working on Ascended armor, and after making one piece (chest) I’m running short…if only I’d bought some of this crap sooner. >.>

Something at least partially related I feel like adding: (I’m not at home atm to confirm this but I strongly suspect it is still an issue for me) For quite some time I have noticed that the leaderboards seem to display their last update/next update times in the correct timezone on my laptop (GMT, and maybe GMT + 1 during DST, not sure). However, it only ever shows PST when I access via desktop….why is this? o.o

Alright, so I was mentioning some of this stuff to GMs via support and the last reply suggested I should just put this here in this subforum, so here goes…
I was initially discussing WvW griefing (supply wasting, etc) in the ticket and I suggested these report options

- (WvW) Griefing: This is something I wasn’t like saying " This MUST be added!!!" rather, I wanted to get a dev’s opinion but no luck on that it seems….at any rate my case in point for this option is IFF it is deemed that griefing should be punished with suspensions/bans, then there should be an option for this.
-Exploiting: Now, this is one I think might be more important. I just look at it from the point of view that, I very much know Arenanet are against exploiting bugs/glitches that they deem harmful in some way.

If we are to be encouraged to report exploiters we see I feel there should be an option for it in-game. I mean what are we supposed to do about it right now (if I found an exploiter for example), outside of contacting support? Not to say support isn’t useful, but a way to immediately report in-game would help. I’ve heard people suggest report for scamming in the past…but as I’m sure you realise, that makes little or no sense.

I just remembered too I made this same point really (about exploiting only) 6 months ago…. (thread: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/suggestions/Extra-report-options/first#post2108464)

As a person suggested in that thread, it might also be nice if player reports had a reason/detail field much like bug reports.

Sitkaz.5463:

They can’t make those finishers permanent, or they’ll have every wvw player stacked on 3 severs and no game.

I like the idea of a statue, op, or something else like that as a little tribute.

every player that cares more about some trophy than actually kitten WvW
FTFY :p

I for one am part of the probable minority that has remained “loyal” to their server since the beginning of the game. If people wanna transfer here n there fine but bandwagoning kitteners which I guess you are alluding to are what I hate…

At any rate if they all “stack on 3 servers” I hope they enjoy their kittened queues :P Edge of the Mists map coming in the future or no, they’d have a kitten hard time playing normal WvW. Perhaps something they could try if they made finishers permanent is keep them in the Season chest so they still have to sort out the meta but maybe have an additional restriction in some shape or form (be in linked to achievements or otherwise) such that at the least for the Finisher you would have to put in some decent amount of work into playing the real WvW maps in order to earn it.

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

On the contrary, the idea from the beginning was to ensure that the number of conduits was limited, so that they would hold value to those who invested in them originally.

The conduit is a clear example of a luxury item and was never meant to be affordable for the masses: you can obtain the services for free in Lion’s Arch. The only time conduits are worth the investment is if you consistently offer thousands of items Zommoros.

And where did you find this out/who told you this…? I know for a fact I sadly didn’t know the conduit existed back when it was available… but I do know the Mystic chests its components came in were introduced as a “quick fix” to the economy to resolve the overabundance of some crap like butter and iron.

Stars.2179:

Oct – Nov 2013 Twilight Assault -> Still around (dungeon will probably be permanent through fractal)

Actually, TA Aetherpath is a permanent replacement for old TA F/U path. I doubt it will ever be dragged into fractals. But, if you meant to refer to the Toxic Hybrid instance (top of Tower) as well then idk about that, it may disappear if/when Tower does but who knows…

uknortherner.2670:

I like this idea. As someone who’s dealt with elitists and prima donnas in the past, I have all but given up on dungeons. Community is fine, but not when you are kicked out for having the “incorrect” build, or because you want to spend more than a microsecond longer than a speedrunner exploring a dungeon for fun.

Out of curiosity what server are you on? Or more to the point, EU or NA region?

@Orpheal: Pathetic or not I think Smirk has a point. While it’s debatable and near impossible to gauge how adversely adding heroes would affect players teaming up together initially I would prefer not to have heroes added. Sure as you say people can do whatever they feel, but better to have people teaming up for group content than bringing a bunch of AI IMO…

At the same time though, I’m not gonna try to play with elitist kittens whether there are heroes or not.

You do realise though that there are some NPCs to fight in the areas of HotM more removed from the start point, where the gate to LA is, though right? Not just Golems too, actual NPCs of the player classes; one of each profession if not more.

Title says (almost) all of it.
For those who are clueless to what I am talking about, this:
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Mystic_Forge_Conduit

I would really like to see an opportunity to get this item in-game again w/o forking out 250g+ on TP for it…and preferably not in BL chests either :P Even if it would again only be a chance that wouldn’t around forever I would be somewhat happy.

I would like to see instance owners leaving not killing the instance implemented too, but in the mean time I guess sadly it’s a good idea to often trust no one you don’t know and try to mostly start instances yourself, assuming you know you have enough time to commit, etc.

I’m not a big PvP player but I still enjoy some on days when I have time (starting trying some SoloQ a few weeks ago but haven’t done a lot more recently because of being busy IRL). Idk how I’d feel exactly about adding a report feature à la GW1 “leeching” option.

I guess it would be helpful for resolving problems like this but, as Mladi has mentioned, there will always be that special kind of kitten that will hit this option because their “victim” is a scrub/bad/<insert kitten-ish insult> in their opinion, devil may care that the person actually was playing in the match. But I would hope that assuming someone that was wrongly punished with dishonor reported their case to you, the person abusing the report option would be punished.

Evan Lesh.3295:

It is unintentional. I can’t give you a hard date for when it will be fixed because we’re between hot fixes and patches right now.

Ooh I see…well thanks for the response. Nice to see that a dev got around to responding to my thread.

UPDATE: So I played some rounds of Lunatic Inquisition and these are facts I discovered

1. The game interface leads you to believe that you gain both glory and rank points from doing these activities, the little pop ups in bottom right that show match glory and top stats that is.
2. The interface seems to lie in that regard though; while I am seeing my glory count in PvP window increase, PvP title achievements (current is Avenger for me) do not gain the rank points you supposedly get.
3. Notwithstanding point 2, these rank points seem to progress the monthly rank points achievement and get added to your “rank progress bar” that replaces XP bar in PvP(-esque) maps.

I have heard something about inconsistencies in PvP rank tracking of titles vs. login screen medal or something in the past but really I think there is quite a bit of a mess here that needs to be rectified. For one, the current notifications of glory/rank gain from activities displayed on the interface seem deceptive.

So I notice from playing Crab Toss (and sprint the other day) that at the end of each round I got some glory and rank points (about 130 at the least I think), just like from a normal pvp match. What’s going on here?? Surely this is a bug?

*groans* Once again, honest, decent players screwed by trolls and exploiters...
GG troll kittens G-kittening-G >_>

I want to know this too! o.o
Is it from some part of the WvW season/achievement rewards perchance?

Uhh….guys, is it not supposed to start when the new matchup, after daily reset at whatever time, (and hence the WvW season beginning) begins? It does say “begin the WvW season”. It hasn’t really begun yet.

So I was just taking a look at my WvW achievements tab and I noticed that my Realm Defender (overall supply use) and Master of Disaster (supply use for siege) looked a bit off…broken even. They both now say that only 10 supply is needed to complete them; that is t1 requirement and there is only 1 tier listed, and that I have earned 15 points from each. Surely this is a bug of some kind? I mean, I find it hard to imagine that these would be intentionally botched up like this without even doing the same to the Repair Master achievement.

Map: any, pretty sure it doesn’t matter
Server: Yak’s Bend, again irrelevant I assume given that this is an achievement bug.

Screenshot attached.

^This x1000. :P (OP)

This is so ridiculous given no prior warning IF it is the case indeed that say, the timer has reverted. :|

Ahh, ok I see. Thanks for the response then.

Soooo, in the new blog post you guys said that people will get a reward come the end of a season, based on world performance. It then says “These chests are no longer character bound and will apply to your account instead.”
Does this apply just to the bonus chests (being not character bound)?

Lil Green Dragn.8049:

Surly Moto being the genius he is could come up with a solution! Come on Moto, pull your act together. Think of the wider audience you could appeal to if you bring the SAB experience underwater. Like, like quaggan!

Cue quaggan patrols with super spears.

Aerlen.5326:

Cautionary temp ban for those who did it once or twice.. permaban for all after. Doesn’t sound fair but I’m real sure people in-game know it’s a bug now because map chats don’t tend to be quiet when this crap goes on.

This is an actual exploit, I expect to see people banned considering a friend of mine got banned for breathing wrong and this is game breaking and griefing behavior.

>breathing wrong
…..I’m sorry, what?

shadowthiefo.3978:

Yeah, I read the code on reddit and tried it 3 times in guild chat, without really thinking it trough. Now I’m banned for 71 more hours. DON’T TRY THIS FOLKS!

Btw, it didn’t seem to affect guild chat, only myself when I tried it. So I stopped and thought it was just a silly bug.

… but yeah. banned now. So don’t do this I guess.

Ouch, that’s kinda kitteny man….
But yea, suggesting permabans for “innocents” is a bit bullkitten IMO. Sure, sure, by all means permaban the kittens maliciously using this to manipulate WvW and shenanigans like that but a permaban against…nonmalicious intent doesn’t seem cool to me. I suppose a cautionary temp ban in some cases isn’t out of order though.

Neural.1824:

I hope Anet has the stones to actually ban the kittens that have been spamming this in chat. EVERY ONE OF THEM. Even as a dev I might let once or even twice slip if the person filed a report with it, but now is an excellent time for Anet to clean house and get rid of a good number of people who don’t belong in this game (or likely on the internet in general).

Ehehe… indeed. I generally haven’t had such problems in GW2 for the most part but I would most certainly not oppose kittenish/tryhard trolls getting kicked out of the game for good.

Ok, honestly I just think this achievement is a bit stupidly unfair because of mainly one thing and to a lesser extent another thing….
My main problem with it is the fact that there are some baubles that you need to go through the hell of travelling the route to Moto’s Breath (or at least almost) to get…
Like, fine I get it, this bullkitten was made hard so that you really have to work to get that skill. It’s reasonable I suppose. I never got it in original SAB release (don’t think I even looked for it) but finally like last night or so after prolonged attempts I managed it. But now I’m here kicking myself for not trying my darnedest during the same session back then to get all the baubles….
I mean kittenmit, why must we be doomed to have to repeat this horrible trial within the zone, just because we want the bauble achievement, and because we could do say, both things in one sitting due to lack of time/stamina/etc…?

Finally the other thing that annoys me, but to a far lesser extent, is the fact that those kitten flytrap plant things eat keys, and there is a chest in W1Z3 where you have no choice but to hop over a flytrap with your key(s) to open it…I know it’s not too hard to get over those things w/o being eaten but still. :/

Anyway, my main problem as I said has been the baubles bein on those mushrooms as I explained in my first point. I wouldn’t be too disappointed if only that was to be changed and not the flytraps. The fact that I also just had a failed run of this with my GF does help me be any less kitten ed off either… And when I say failed, I don’t mean we tried again forever to get all those baubles that I think shouldn’t be there and never actually got them…oh no no no. I have had dulfy’s guide open in a tab for the W1Z3 bauble achievement and I suppose somehow we kittening missed at least one bauble somewhere else because we finally beat King Toad after we really thought we got them all. But NOPE, no achievement for either of us.
Really though, some other night , but not tonight, I wouldn’t mind going back and thoroughly, routinely, categorically combing through every square inch of this bloody zone IF AND ONLY IF I don’t have to worry about those baubles I referred to.

Apologies if most or all of this was said already but I don’t have time to read the entirety of this thread right now but I did read the some of the first few pages.
Ok so mostly what I’m here to say is I really have a problem with the difficulty of the later parts of world 2 zone 1 >.> So much so that while I perhaps haven’t tried as much as some people complaining/discussing here, I haven’t managed to even clear W2Z1 yet.
My main gripe with it is the content immediately following the second(?) checkpoint that comes after the log raft section. Y’know, you get past the trees and the angry bear, hop along some crocodiles, turtles…and you come to a checkpoint. So, I may not haven’t actually managed that myself yet but it seemed kind of reasonable still. At the least, my gf managed to do it and so when i died i started at that new checkpoint.

But oh my kittening gods….like I trust quite a few people have already said/thought (with or w/o voicing on forum) this next part really takes the kitten IMO. Now, Idk maybe the platforming aspect of this part itself just maaaaybe is ok; I may have to just make sure that I’m doing things right and not going the wrong way….but the kittening part about it the really annoys me is the fact that if you screw up in this part you are likely to be swept back to the area BEFORE THE KITTENING CHECKPOINT that you just reached. =.= It just seems stupidly unfair to me that that should be possible, and that that outcome is pretty much inevitable unless you go frantically bashing a few keys or so like a kittening idiot, just hoping beyond hope that you can manage to crawl back up on a rock somewhere before you wipe out…

There’s a fine line between challenging content and just taking the kitten ….

Indeed, /report like GW1 might be a nice idea.

I just filed a bug report because someone was exploiting in Crab Toss arena. Apparently you can climb onto at least one spot of the ring of fencing while in there. Sure that’s all well and good but c’mon Anet, please; give us more choices for player reports. Namely, exploiting. Scamming is hardly appropriate is it? Heck, is it even a useful option? When the secure option of using the TP to buy and sell is there? Or do you actually give out (temp) bans to people who provably scammed someone through mail trade perhaps?

Junkpile.7439:

If you care about 200% mf bonus you shouldn’t even be in www.

Opinions….
I’m not too gone on the suggestion sure, but if people wanna play with MF, they wanna play with MF.

Temps? Oh btw I forgot to mention, before my laptop pretty much died and needed repairs, I never had trouble playing gw2 on it.

*bump* anyone? :/

Ok so I’m going to upload a video somewhere and link to it here, because I have been having trouble when trying to play GW2 on my laptop again which recently got repaired (hard drive + motherboard replaced iirc) The video speaks for itself: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0iTg3PQfbA

So please, can someone tell me what could be going wrong here?

AidanTaylor.3872:

rgrwng.4072:

My broke achievements:

~snip~

I am guessing i lost points too, but i have no way of proving, because i don’t take screenshots every night. Jumping Puzzles seem to be unchanged, which is nice.

Thank you for this list

You will lose the points when you lose the achievement, but finishing the achievement again will give you back the points (re-achieving the achievement) .

Edit: To clarify, I am not telling you the solution is to go out and do them all again, just that when a solution does come about you will regain those points.

Well thanks for your responses Aidan. One thing I’d like to ask here though, while I know obviously the game isn’t open source so it’s not like you’re gonna share source code, I can help but ask, is there any chance of perhaps one of your programmers or the like providing some insight on this? I mean, I’m curious from a technical perspective (being a student in a games development course and having learned some programming) how the heck exactly was this achievement rollback thing something that ended up being done to fix “a server crash issue”? o.O I know in a huge system (a game or otherwise) if something goes wrong there could be the potential for crazy things to happen, but this just seems beyond comprehension for me (the connection between a possible server crash and achievements).

Ok, so what I’m suggesting here as follows:
I really like the idea of targeted emotes, but I think it would be even cooler if targeting could be expanded to custom emotes. I guess it’d require a little additional coding but hopefully nothing super hard. I mean, I just think it’d be nice if we could type
something like /e hug @ *while targeting someone*
to get "[Player] hugs [target].
Also, to go even further (this is where I figure even more coding would be needed), perhaps functionally could be added to process something like /e intimidated by @
into "[Player] is intimidated by [target]." Not an awesome example I guess but hey, they’re custom emotes so the exact actions emotes being expressed are slightly irrelevant.
So yea, to conclude I guess maybe if you guys were to add this, it might entail code that looks for prepositions in the input to decide how to render the emote.